UncleEbenezer wrote:quelquod wrote:We dumped it and someone stole it from the skip outside our house.
Interesting language there.
Does taking away something dumped in a skip count as stealing?
When it comes to skips, I prefer the word 'rescued'.
There seems not an equivalent word for things dumped in one's (expensive) skip by others....
9873210 wrote:Have you checked the amount of hot water it would need compared to the tub it's replacing? If you want to fill it up to your neck for a good soak you need to make sure your water heater has enough capacity.
Yes, it would need a larger cylinder or rather a taller cylinder given the space available in our poky little bathroom. And an upgrade from single immersion to double.
A single immersion will heat one gallon in about four minutes, so with two - and there will be a power feed from a redundant electric shower that I could use for a second immersion - that would be about a gallon in two minutes so I would get a second bite at the hot water, as it were.
UncleEbenezer wrote:88V8 wrote:and in our little cottage there is a mismatch between my height and the width of our bathroom, so when bathing my knees are around my ears, and there is no room to rejig the layout.
I had a somewhat-similar issue when I moved in here. A bathtub the entire width of the bathroom, which I hadn't realised was seriously undersized.
Got around it by taking some space from the adjacent ensuite shower room, which was the same width as the bathroom!
Thankyou, your diagram reminds me of a telex operator we had a few years ago who was a dab hand at telex pictures, he had a super version of Marilyn Monroe.
The shower room is just the other side of a (concrete block) wall, alas it is also the toilet and immediately the other side of the wall is the loo pan with the sewer pipe buried in the concrete floor, plus the incoming water pipe ditto.
Of course, nothing is impossible, but...
I had contemplated going out through the external wall, just a hole the size of a bath, but that is stymied by a retaining wall and a huge clematis which I am not prepared to sacrifice.
There seem to be few purveyors of soaking tubs. I have found another one whose options include a
walk-in.
Or there's this one where the door
opens inwards.I've always regarded these as rather geriatric and therefore of no possible interest to me, but some mornings as I creak down the stairs I wonder whether it might actually be quite sensible.
Any experience? Of walk-ins, I mean, not of creaking.
V8